How to Set-Up Your Local Machine with Civis API

Instructions:

Go to platform.civisanalytics.com > my profile > API Key to generate a new API key.
Open terminal — This will put you in your home directory where .bash_profile lives
Make sure you’re in your home directory : ‘cd~/‘
Type in ‘ls -la’ in terminal
Run either ‘open -e .bashprofile ‘ or ‘atom .bash_profile’ (if you have atom) to open the file for editing
Add the following line: export CIVIS_API_KEY ‘ = ‘ENTER YOUR CIVIS API KEY HERE'
Click save (or cmd + s) and close
Go back to terminal and run ‘source ~/.bash_profile